While I don’t write about writing often, I realized this morning while I stood waiting for my coffee to brew that I have a writing problem. Not like an alcohol or drug problem, but a problem within my writing.

Interested in data journalism and where it’s going? Today is the launch of the first part of the new Data Journalism Handbook. We announced that we would be supporting a new version of the Data Journalism Handbook with the European Journalism Centre last year.

The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy. Subscribe to the newsletter here. Kevin Hart is a popular comedian and actor who, until Friday morning, was scheduled to be the host of the 2019 Academy Awards. via Pocket

Whitney Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and is the author of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture and co-author of The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity and via Pocket

Tony Stark’s pretty sure where he stands with Steve Rogers. They got off on the wrong foot on day one, and since then there’s been minimal tolerance and thinly-veiled dislike between them. Tony’s certain that this would never ever change, not even when he gains some unexpected new information that suggests that Steve’s feelings for him aren’t what he thought. Because it cannot be true. It’s impossible. Surely?

Basketball games. Lunch in the park. Evenings at the movies. Tony and Steve are longtime Avengers teammates and the best of friends, and Tony's been pining away for Steve as long as he's known him. Tony knows Steve's straight, but if Steve were going to date a guy, it would be him, wouldn't it? Everyone knows that. Unfortunately, no one told Steve. And when Steve decides to keep trying online dating after the Lover's Leap fiasco, Tony is shocked and heartbroken to learn that Steve's new boyfriend is none other than... Batroc the Leaper! But for the sake of Steve's happiness, Tony must put aside his own feelings about Batroc before it costs him Steve's friendship -- or worse.

Democratic or otherwise, rarely, very rarely, does any concentration of power or wealth desire to see subjects well informed, truly educated, their privacy ensured or their discourse uninhibited. Those are the very things that power and wealth fear most.

Dean Winchester is a high school drop out with a GED and a give’em Hell attitude. He’s also got an ex-wife demanding child support, a finance company on his ass about his overdue car repayments, and an eviction notice pending—he can’t keep dodging his landlord forever.
One thing he doesn’t have is a job, on account of him getting laid off four months ago—something he still hasn’t told his family about.
Times are tough and Dean is getting desperate. He needs cash fast, which is how he ends up working as a freelance skip tracer for sleazy bail bondsman Fergus ‘Crowley’ MacLeod.
Dean’s first bail jumper is none other than local bad-boy-turned-good-cop, Castiel Novak—a man with whom Dean has history. Novak is a hot guy in hot water—wanted for murder—and to Dean he’s worth a ten grand fee. Is he guilty? Dean tells himself he doesn’t care. The only question worth asking is: will Dean get his man?